Media Touts Another Covid Variant in Quest for More Pandemic-mania
Meanwhile, states and cities are resorting to wastewater testing to estimate level of covid infections, as few people are bothering with the covid tests anymore.
Clearly, the media’s quest for the latest pandemic to cover is not going well.
Bird flu isn’t spreading among humans, and when someone does catch it, it simply results in “pink eye.” The super-monkeypox seems to be confined to Africa currently.
So, it’s back to stories about covid. To begin with, there is a new “FLiRT” variant that has the “experts” excited.
A new coronavirus variant named KP.3.1.1 has risen to dominance in the U.S., almost doubling in prevalence in just two weeks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
Experts are warning that the new variant—which, as of August 3, accounts for more than 1 in 4 U.S. COVID-19 cases—is “more of a challenge” to our immune systems compared to previous variants.
The new variant is a sub-lineage of the previously dominant KP.3, which rose to prominence at the end of May.
…Both KP.3.1.1 and KP.3 belong to a new class of variants nicknamed the “FLiRT” variants. They are named after the mutations in the projections on the virus’ surface that allow them to enter our cells. These projections, known as spike proteins, are also used as targets by our immune systems and vaccinations.
According to early analysis (that has not been peer-reviewed), KP.3.1.1 is significantly more infectious than previous variants, including KP.3. It may also be better at evading our immune systems and immunity conveyed by existing vaccines.
Covid is now endemic and it is ubiquitous. People have stopped COVID testing altogether, so public health officials now have to resort to wastewater sample testing to estimate how many people have the virus in all its variants.
For example, in Michigan.
In fact, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) reports that COVID-19 disease indicators are rising – those indicators include wastewater and emergency department visits, but they’re increasing from a low level.
“What they’re following right now is wastewater samples because that’s the only predictive thing that we have right now. People aren’t getting tested as often,” Sims said. “If they’re doing home tests, we don’t know what the results of those are, and a lot of states aren’t collecting the data or reporting the data anymore.”
Despite all the super-strict precautions and pandemic rules that were enforced over the span of 2-3 years in some places, California wastewater is filled with the pathogen.
California has “very high” coronavirus levels in its wastewater — one of 21 states in that category, up from seven the prior week, according to estimates published Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That means about 155 million people — nearly half of America’s population — live in areas with “very high” coronavirus levels in sewage. Besides California, the other states with “very high” levels are Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming. Washington, D.C., is also in that category.
…Most Americans probably know a family member, friend, co-worker or acquaintance who has come down with COVID-19 recently, perhaps being infected while traveling or at a social gathering.
“If you call — I don’t know — 20 or 30 friends, you’re very, very likely to find a bunch of them actually have COVID, or have had COVID recently, or are starting to be symptomatic,” said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a COVID expert and chief of research and development at the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System in Missouri.
Americans are so over COVID. Clearly, they are treating it as they would any mild respiratory virus and getting on with their lives.
There is a lesson in that for our press and some of the “experts” who still advocate masking.
“Given the increased transmission of new strains of COVID-19, residents should continue taking common-sense precautions to avoid transmitting or becoming ill with COVID-19,” the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said in a statement Thursday.
“This includes washing their hands often or using hand sanitizer, especially before eating, after sneezing or coughing, or when in public places, and considering mask use when in crowded indoor spaces,” the department said.
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Also, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said in a statement Thursday, “consider ignoring us completely as we have no idea what we are talking about.”
They are more worried about stirring up a pandemic before an election than human feces and used needles in the streets
I would appreciate that level of honesty.
Protecting the public health by testing waste water samples and relying on prediction or extrapolation? Hey, we’re on it!!!
Protecting the public health by keeping the border closed so tens of millions of people carrying Gaia-knows-what diseases don’t enter and spread those diseases? Wait, what?
There is always spike in waste water in SF after pride weekend. Because the gay males dancing on the pride parade floats in backless chaps.
Bed rest, fluids, cleanliness. This is how you deal with the sniffles.
Remember it is DemPanic-mania, not Pandemic.
I pulled the California data from the link below, filtered for Los Angeles, and found the peak hospital cases WITH covid peaked on 7/27/2024, which was right in line with the virus’s behavior in even years. The virus seems to be on a 2-year cycle, peaking the third week of July in even years, and around the end of August/beginning of September in even years.
The current hype perfectly mirrors government-induced panicking throughout the pandemic, which invariably ramps up the “danger!!!” messaging right when the peak happens. This despite the data now showing that it is cyclical with reliable patterns of peaks and valleys.
Bureaucrats just can’t feel the power without manipulating people in order to stroke their own importance…and ask for a bigger budget.
https://data.ca.gov/dataset/covid-19-hospital-data/resource/e34f966b-39dc-4f86-8087-2f9b327f60f3
I’ve noticed a pandemic of pandemics recently.
you know these pukes would in fact release a virus etc to maintain their hold over patriotic americans
To hell with Wuhan virus, the Chinese communist regime that created it and facilitated its spread (whether by design, or, by accident), and, the leftist/Dhimmi-crat apparatchiks and totalitarians who exploited the virus to expand and exercise their power in the most obnoxiously lawless and despotic manner, possible.
“COVID-19 mutations are ‘clocklike'”
Definitely. They come every election cycle and their severity is based on how much the Left needs to lock down the country.
Subotai Bahadur
Well maybe we shouldn’t be screwing around trying to make a weapon out of a virus, then further manipulating the situation with vaccines and social engineering.
Brings new meaning to the phrase “makin that shit up”
You know they detect a panoply of viruses and bacteria in waste water. Why don’t we hear about them? Because that would create “noise” that would drown out the “signal” they want us to receive. We were most focused recently on COVID and this is just a continuation of a narrative that’s now being beaten like a dead horse.